Games like Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
If Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mars Horizon, Surviving Mars and Starship Colony — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life: Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.
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Steam players who put hours into Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Mars Horizon
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Top pick for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
Surviving Mars
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Second-strongest match for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Starship Colony
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Third-strongest match for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
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Ranked #4 for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
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Ranked #5 for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Reshaping Mars
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Ranked #6 for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Solargene
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Ranked #7 for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Take On Mars
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Ranked #8 for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
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Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Auroch Digital, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
Mars Horizon
WHY THIS
Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Lock and load into the Starship Troopers universe and join the Mobile Infantry in the most realistic depiction of war ever made! Experience an original story in this action-packed, first-person retro shooter. Would you like to know more?
Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Shares Simulation with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!
Dark Future: Blood Red States (Classic)
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Shares Strategy with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world.
Chainsaw Warrior (Classic)
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Shares Strategy with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Chainsaw Warrior from Games Workshop is the classic game for one strong-nerved player! It's 2032 and spatial warping has opened a hole into another dimension in the midst of the old municipal buildings at the heart of Manhattan. Bizarre and dangerous creatures are flooding into our dimension.
Ogre
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Shares Strategy with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
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Another title from Auroch Digital, the studio behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Shares Strategy with Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe.
Frequently asked about Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
- What games are most similar to Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life are Mars Horizon, Surviving Mars, Starship Colony.
- Who developed Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life?
- Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life was developed by Auroch Digital.
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